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 Posted - January 12 2012 : 09:49:54 AM
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i was attracted to this by the livery love it,ken
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Posted - January 12 2012 : 09:58:04 AM
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Ken ; That road name is not made up. It is a nick name that stuck.
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Posted - January 12 2012 : 10:05:14 AM
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Now...if they just did a Tonopah & Tidewater version...
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - January 12 2012 : 10:09:54 AM
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frank i know that the rocket was a rock island livery,my point was directed more to them having or not having a gas/electric ken
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Posted - January 12 2012 : 10:19:26 AM
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Ken,
Yes they did...
http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/carlylehold/5161851542/
(Not my url...just a fast goog)
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - January 12 2012 : 10:23:50 AM
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| cheers rgcw5, that's great ken
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Posted - January 12 2012 : 10:43:20 AM
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| Yes, Ken, They did. Probably their most notable run was in Louisiana/Arkansas. At one point they wanted to discontinue the run, but one of the states (Louisiana, maybe?) wouldn't approve it, so for a while it just basically ran to the border, serving almost nobody! It definitely matches your new F-units nicely. I believe in later years, one or two of those units were turned into weed-spraying outfits (and painted green). Chris
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Posted - January 12 2012 : 10:50:43 AM
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| cheers chris and yes go nice with that set,found the weed car ken
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Posted - January 19 2012 : 9:59:34 PM
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Kenny ; Again yes it is real. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RR) (reporting marks RI, Rock Island) .As to gas electrics. It was the cheepest way to run a passenger train. Is that a direct prototype for the RI. I dont know. I am certain they ran doodlebugs.
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Posted - January 20 2012 : 05:53:36 AM
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quote:Kenny ; Again yes it is real. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RR) (reporting marks RI, Rock Island) .As to gas electrics. It was the cheepest way to run a passenger train. Is that a direct prototype for the RI. I dont know. I am certain they ran doodlebugs.
Frank
Originally posted by toptrain - January 19 2012 : 9:59:34 PM
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Yes, those colors are real on a doodle bug... like painting racing stripes on a turtle!
The colors matched their financial condition. Black ... Yellow ... Red ... and, the Blues ... so much so, that even their oldest rolling stock, them old wooden M.O.W. cars got the "Dress-Blues" paint job. But they were painted heavy.
Might as well make the most out of any pennies you had left in the piggy bank, since that was how much money they had left... Bankrupt! It was a pretty blue.
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Posted - January 25 2012 : 8:41:10 PM
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The rock, as far as I know, only painted one or two doodlebugs in that scheme. Not sure, but I think so. At least one of which I'm sure. So yes, it's absolutely prototypical.
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Posted - January 25 2012 : 10:33:07 PM
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quote:
funny to know the last scheme wa known as "bankrupt blue"
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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